Philosophy Week 8 Discussion

Philosophy Week 8 Discussion

Respond to one of these prompts and be clear about which one you are referring to:

PROMPT #1: TURING TEST: Is the Turing Test a valid test of artificial intelligence? If you were taking the Turing Test, how could you try to deceive the interrogator into thinking that you are a robot?

PROMPT #2: HARD PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: Explain in your own words the hard problem of consciousness and why it is hard. Do you agree with the distinction between easy and hard problems of consciousness?

PROMPT #3: ROBOT MINDS: David Chalmers argues that there are deep philosophical reasons that make it impossible to build a conscious machine. Daniel Dennett thinks that it is possible that robots might some day become conscious. Which argument do you find more persuasive and why?

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